On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>> I'm trying to read (and back up) a Mac-formatted (HFS+) hard drive. Anyone
>> done this, or have any ideas? I have it hooked to the external port on my
>> card, which is an Adaptec 7940UW(?), driver=aic7xxx. I have to compile in
>> (or modularize) support for the Mac partitioning scheme and the HFS+
>> filesystem; I may have already done that, and even if I haven't I should
>> still see the raw disk, right?
>>
>> No new disks show up when I turn it on. "fdisk -l /dev/sde" returns
>> nothing. (New SCSI/USB disks start at sde because I already have a card
>> reader that takes up sda-sdd.)
>>
>> I don't much care about being able to access the files here (it'd be nice
>> though), as long as they go back properly.
>
> If your disk isn't coming up, I would look at a SCSI termination problem.
> Look up the jumpers of the disk online, see if it is terminated.
There is DATerm on the case, but I can try a physical terminator in case
DATerm is fried.
...
Nope, same.
> FYI, Mac OS 7.3 is a free download from Apple.
I have a real Mac here, but it's ancient, I rarely use it, and it takes up
room so I plan to give it away. (Any takers here?)
> I don't remember if it supports HFS+ though. In fact, I'd say probably
> not,
No, HFS+ support came in 8.1. Maybe they backported it via an extension.
> but I have used MacOS 7.3 for other purposes when licensing was an issue.
> It does work, and it's fast, like good for a Mac rescue for hardware that
> qualifies.
>
> What does
> cat /proc/partitions
> show? Any new ones?
Disk off:
12 each from hda & hdb
Disk on and spun up:
no new ones
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